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Graft fights back
May 09, 2007
World Bank staff are determined to oust Paul Wolfowitz, because his campaign against corruption threatens their overpaid jobs. [Full story]
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Carbon Boondoggles
April 26, 2007
Aid bureaucracies are the only winners when they repackage outdated development projects into supposed carbon savers. [Full story]
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Internal Attack
April 17, 2007
The only wonder is that it took so long for World Bank staff, faced with his campaign against corruption, to try to oust its new president. (Originally printed in the National Post) [Full story]
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Dam protester put to death in secret, rushed execution
December 07, 2006
A 20-year-old who took part in angry local protests against the Pubugou dam in Sichuan province two years ago was executed on Nov. 28, with neither his family nor his lawyer notified beforehand. [Full story]
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Quakes jolt Three Gorges area as huge reservoir fills
October 29, 2006
The strongest earthquake to hit Hubei province in two decades shook an area near the Three Gorges dam on Oct. 27, the same day the project's rising reservoir reached the 2006 target of 156 metres above sea level. [Full story]
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Nu River dam plans to be scaled back
October 26, 2006
China's water minister has poured cold water on the plan to build 13 dams on the Nu River in Yunnan province, but suggests that one or two 'uncontroversial' hydropower projects will be given the go-ahead. [Full story]
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Sinohydro 'downgraded' over accident record
August 31, 2006
The Chinese company set to build a billion-dollar dam on the Salween River in Burma in partnership with Thailand has been criticized in a performance review of state-owned enterprises for unspecified 'safety or environmental pollution accidents.' [Full story]
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Dai Qing: Boosting support to dam migrants is just a start
August 27, 2006
Beijing's decision to give 22 million farmers displaced by dams a 600-yuan (US$75) annual subsidy for 20 years is seen by journalist Dai Qing as official acknowledgement of the high social cost of such projects. [Full story]
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Three Gorges navigation woes set to worsen
August 14, 2006
The delays that have plagued boats trying to get around the Three Gorges dam are set to worsen soon when one-half of the two-way shiplock is taken out of service for more than nine months. [Full story]
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Yunnan power grid company losing money: ADB report
June 22, 2006
The Asian Development Bank reports that the ADB-financed company responsible for linking hydro dams in Yunnan to the provincial power grid has been operating at a loss in recent years and is not financially viable. [Full story]
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Debt cancellation sets looters free
October 24, 2005
An odious debts challenge would allow Nigerians a public reckoning of accounts and the opportunity to make the looters, both their own political leaders and western creditors, bear the consequences of reckless lending and borrowing. Odious Debts Online [Full story]
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Erasing the scar or the evidence?
June 17, 2005
Erasing debt erases culpability. It does not demonstrate respect for people's rights, the rule of law or due diligence, and it is certainly no arbiter of justice. Odious Debts Online [Full story]
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On the horns of an odious dilemma
April 15, 2005
Debtors and creditors both suspect a good portion of debts developing countries owe are odious. Odious Debts Online [Full story]
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Forgive to forget
April 08, 2005
Unchallenged, lenders treat all loans as legitimate and enforceable and decide among themselves which loans will be written off and which rescheduled. Odious Debts Online [Full story]
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Africa debates odious debt
March 19, 2005
A non-binding resolution passed by Nigeria's House of Representatives last week to halt payments on the country's $35 billion external debt has provoked some strong responses. Odious Debts Online [Full story]
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Will power
February 18, 2005
Once again Canada has found cause to wag its diplomatic finger at Africa, this time shaking a despairing head over Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki and his government's failure to stamp out corruption. Odious Debts Online [Full story]
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Nice try, Paris Club
November 26, 2004
Iraq's national assembly members spurn the West's bid at debt forgiveness, proclaiming, 'Saddam's debts are not our debts.' History backs them up. Financial Post (Canada) [Full story]
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La condonación de deudas
September 24, 2003
A Spanish language version of Patricia Adams' article on odious debts, first published by the National Post newspaper in Canada. Translated and reproduced on the El Cato Institute Web site.El Cato Institute [Full story]
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Powerful new corporation plans more Yangtze megadams
December 05, 2002
China’s newest power giant aims to finance not only the completion of the Three Gorges project but also the construction of many more huge dams upstream. [Full story]
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The Canadian connection
June 27, 2002
A corruption trial in Lesotho should be forcing Canadian agencies to re-examine their relationships with firms that engage in bribery. Instead, the indifference it is being greeted with indicates little has changed. National Post [Full story]
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EDC tempts a trade war
July 06, 2000
The OECD is tired of Canada's EDC flouting international trade rules, writes Patricia Adams. Now the clock is ticking toward a confrontation. [Full story]
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Secret of EDC's 'success': Taxpayers' money
May 25, 2000
Patricia Adams' controversial National Post article examines the EDC. [Full story]
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Three Gorges dam is black hole of corruption, says Chinese journalist
May 25, 2000
Lisa Peryman [Full story]
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EDC is buying off its opponents Public-private collusion to create export cartel
November 18, 1999
National Post [Full story]
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Foreign aid corruption case puts Canada on trial
August 20, 1999
On the eve of the world's first foreign aid-related corruption court case -- one involving Canadian engineering giant Acres International -- the Canadian government agencies concerned mostly appear to be abdicating responsibility. National Post [Full story]
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The debts of corruption
May 10, 1999
A global movement is asking Western nations to forgive 'odious' debt extended to despotic regimes. The cause has merit, but opposition is building. [Full story]
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China's dam begins to crumble
April 06, 1999
National Post [Full story]
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Population prophets well behind the people
January 28, 1995
The world does not have too many people - it does have too many ill-conceived mega-projects that have created pockets of grief. London Free Press [Full story]
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